"Because of last-minute difficulties in buying tickets, I arrived in Barcelona at midnight on a train DIFFERENT from the one I had announced, and nobody was waiting for me."

80 pages in two days? Let's do this!!

Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

"Come on, Wes, you know you're terrible at lying." (Allison, page 153)

"First day in our new home, I helped bury my brother in that hard Texas ground, next to my uncle's fresh grave. I was twelve." First line in Sarah's book! So excited!!